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On Monday 22 October 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> > usr/bin/kstart
> > user application to start programs with weird args. Append 4 ?
>
> I guess not, since there might be user scripts out there that use it by
> name.
>
> First of all, is this runtime material or workspace? I.e., does it work
> with other WMs than kwin?
>
> Most of this application's options are related to the window placement, so
> how is it communicating that information to the Window Manager? If it's
> native WM hints, then either kstart would work just fine in either
> environment.
>
> If it's using DCOP/D-Bus, then distributions will need to replace this wi=
th
> a shell script that detects the running environment and execs the correct
> one. Meaning: you need to rename the KDE 3 one too.

=46rom a quick look at the code I'd say it is using direct X11 communicatio=
n=20
with the window manager, so it should work with other window managers as we=
ll=20
and there is probably no difference for a script if it calls the KDE3 or KD=
E4=20
version.

Cheers,
Kevin
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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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